Re: should not specify default group for users
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > I agreed to your earlier changes, not the recent ones. :-) If by default
> > all users are in group "users", then the umask must be 022 or the more
> > paranoid 077. The umask cannot be 002 in this case; otherwise, other
> > /home users on the system will have write access.
>
> This is not the case. You are missing the point of this
>
> The idea of putting all users in group users is that an application can
> obtain an idea of what is a normal user. Not that this is being used
> for generic file permissions.
>
> The two issues are unrelated.
>
The way that is traditionally done in the Unix world is that if the user
shell is found in /etc/shells then it is a normal user. Does this
suffice?
-hpa
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